Reconstructing Catholic Femininity in Early Modern England: Lives of Women Saints of Our Contrie of England
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Lives of Women Saints in Our Contrie of England, an early-seventeenth-century collection of Anglo-Saxon women saints’ lives, presents an image of virtuous, diligent women that counters the misogynist depiction of Catholics in the Protestant polemics. The image of the feminine was utilized in early modern England, as in other periods, to attack the opposition, and early modern Protestants portrayed Catholicism as the “Whore of Babylon,” sinful and unable to produce anything positive. The women saints in Lives of Women Saints, particularly those associated with the famous Barking Abbey, are all depicted as hardworking women who remain under male influence and authority. By portraying them thus, the Lives of Women Saints presents a more likeable, albeit conservative, form of Catholic femininity.
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Lives of Women Saints in Our Contrie of England, an early-seventeenth-century collection of Anglo-Saxon women saints’ lives, presents an image of virtuous, diligent women that counters the misogynist depiction of Catholics in the Protestant polemics. The image of the feminine was utilized in early modern England, as in other periods, to attack the opposition, and early modern Protestants portrayed Catholicism as the “Whore of Babylon,” sinful and unable to produce anything positive. The women saints in Lives of Women Saints, particularly those associated with the famous Barking Abbey, are all depicted as hardworking women who remain under male influence and authority. By portraying them thus, the Lives of Women Saints presents a more likeable, albeit conservative, form of Catholic femininity.
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